A NEGRO SERMON AGAINST VANITY.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 279, 22 June 1860, Page 4

A NEGRO SERMON AGAINST VANITY.

I am going to give you part of anegro sermon which ■was preached by a good old man in Jamaica. Hundreds of the people hear this minister; and somehave" been made wiser and better by what they have heard. The words are spelt just as he spoke them; but they ■were sounded in such strange tones as made the people attend to what he said, and feel it too; he thus began.

"Fust Titnoty, six chapter, seventeen verse.— * Charge dem dat he rich in dis world, dat dem be not highminded.'" Then he Btopped and looked ahout upon the congregation ; and after this, in a complaining tone, as if somebody was finding fault with him, he said, " What for him say, ' Charge dem dat be rich, dat dem be not highminded?' We no rich. We poor nigger. De huckra (white man) him rich. Nigger make de jsugar; buckra take the money; what for him my charge dem dat be rich ?" Then changing his voice he thus answered the supposed objector: "You no rich, eh? Make I show you, you rich. You free nigger now—so you say, *Me no like round jacket again.' Den you go to one 'tore (store)—you buy one coat, one topcoat. You put him on. You look yourself in a glass. You like him. Den you go to one toder 'tore. You buy one Hack trouser. You no want wash trouser again. ' Wash trouser,' you say, 'him good for slave nigger. De free nigger,: him must hab black trouser like tuckra.' Den you go to one toder'tore. You buy one smart shirt. Now you no like check shirt. Him good for de work niggerj but free nigger must hab smart shirt. Den you go to one toder'tore. You buy one black hat. 'De straw hat/ you sayv' no good for free nigger,' Den you go to one toder'tore..1 You buy one boots. De .slave nigger, ,him go bare foot. De free nigger him must hab boots, like buckra. Den you wait till Sunday come! You put'em on. You 'tay till the people all come—den sit quite quiet—no make noise., De minister him come—him sit down. De people then wait for the minister to begin. Him begin. Den you come. You-walkee up the'aisle. Creak—creak—creak. What for you makethat noise; eh? Creak—creak—creak. , Dont dat pride '? . Dont dat say,' see me new tail coat—rsee.me new black hat —see "me fine shirt—see1 me. good.trouser—hear me Dew boots. Dont me one fine gentleman?—dont me .rich ?~don't dat pride? "Charge dem dat rbe rich, dat dem be not high, minted."— Juvenile Missionary Magcim, ■ . - -■